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Show A RTISTS unable to visit Max Schmeling's fight camp missed a rare opportunity for entertain ment and enlightenment. Mickey Mc-Avoyv Mc-Avoyv one of the German's better sparring partners, has "Good Luck Forever" tattooed on his right shoulder. shoul-der. There Is a picture of a sailor on his left shoulder. His right arm Is adorned with "U. S. A. Navy." On his left leg there is pictured the smiling face of a girl who seems to be named Anna . . . When Bill Win-gate, Win-gate, a very good Baltimore sports writer, died a few days ago, the mayor of the town issued a public resolution of regret. The next rumor the Brooklyn baseball club will have to deny Is that Frank Hague, Jersey City's mayor, will buy the Joint and Install Travis Jackson as manager . . . Latest Lat-est suggestion for the What to Do With Camera club . . . "Stuff him and save him for the laughs" . . . They are saying that Eddie Mayo, the neat Holding third Backer bought by the Giants, cannot hit southpaws. Yet last year be went to bat 122 times against left handers and had 39 hits for a .319 average. . . . When he loses n game Fred Frankhouse saves his temper by not reading the newspapers until two days Inter. Could It be true that Joe Louis' managers requested Mrs. Joe to leave camp because the Bomber was spending more time in billing and cooing than In training? .... Anyhow, Any-how, Mrs. Joe, who dotes upon fights and who never missed a workout, decided to stay In New York (In-stead (In-stead of Lakewood) until after the night of June 18 ... In the gay nineties a pitcher always warmed up with the first baseman, Instead of the catcher, before entering the box. Connie Mack I9 Still Wizard in Rookie Hunt New York Post. W.VU Scrvic. Ducats Bring Back Fond Memories of Ring's Old Timers A LL day long they sit there. Old-timers, Old-timers, most of them, they have little else to do. Occasionally they Utter words of wisdom concerning this cream colored youth who glowers glow-ers at them from brightly tinted posters tacked against the walls. Occasionally Oc-casionally they smile little 6ecret miles at the antics of sweating fat men who rush In to offer king's ran-oms ran-oms for squatters' rights at Yankee stadium for the Louis-Schmeling fight More often though they Just sit there, these fighters, managers and promoters 0: another day. Probably all of them are glad that collections are so good in this palace of the Broadway duke who deals In ducats. But what they like best Is another collection. So all day long they sit there, looking at the ticket stubs, mementoes of almost forgotten fights, neatly pasted In frames outside out-side the doors of Mike Jacobs' office. And these are the tales that are told: There Is the scrap of faded cardboard card-board which entitled a Brighton Beach visitor to see Gibbons and McFarland lead with agile lefts so many years ago. Prize-fight ballyhoo bally-hoo and customs were much the same then as now. Papers of that day carried the proud tidings that John McCormack had bought the first box of six for this one. That night the eminent Irish tenor walked leisurely to his favored spot and found six thick muscled citizens seated there, caps pulled far down over bristling foreheads. "I bee vour nardon. bovs. these In spite of gray hairs and advancing advanc-ing years, Connie Mack has not lost much of his skill In picking coming rXsZT young ball plaers. rjwi Nicholson, the CT? i ' Washington (Md.) .? college outfielder t-'y j who soon will be ' r presented as a mem- r "W i ber of the Athletics, ;' should make good j In the big time with- TV J in a year or so. He , 1 -3 comes from Jimmy Foxx's neighborhood Connie Mack and another thing he hits almost 83 hard . . . James Graham, secretary of the Metropol- are my seats," pleaded McCormack. The boys snarled. Ushers were summoned. sum-moned. The boys continued to snarl. Ever a diplomat, the singer 6aved the day. He took his friends back to where there were some vacant seats 20 rows from the ring. Recalling Bat Nelson at Dempsey-Willard Go There are dozens of stubs which bring back memories of that great little fighting man, Terry McGovern. A larger piece of fPgsTl pasteboard bears Wj th names of Wll- lr'"?;' lard and Dempsey. KlSeW Seldom will there IY'k u De such sweltering ! tSKi.-, heat as there was ? Y I :? on that afternoon I V - ; after Battling Nel- j- V ,.; son took his bath. i VI? n th0 nlght PPeVi- j ous to the Toledo ui. .-.w... massacre Bat had Jack Dempsey been scurrying hither hith-er and thither on errands of his own. Now as he wandered near the arena In the early morning he felt In need of that other refreshment which comes from a cooling tub. He looked, saw a barrel brimful of sparkling liquid and climbed In. Cold drinks sold at such a premium premi-um that afternoon that vendors neglected neg-lected what otherwise might have been a swell business opportunity. They made no effort to charge bo-Duses bo-Duses for sips from the tub of fern-ouade fern-ouade In which the once great lightweight light-weight champion bad bathed. Carefully pasted In the frame there Is another bit of cardboard with $500 engraved upon It In tall numerals. This Is one of the ducats du-cats from the Carpentler-Levinsky light-heavyweight scrap at Jersey City on Tuesday, October 12, 1920. Itan Soccer league, once starred for the Norwood and Roslyn F. C. In Sjotlaml He helped organize the Greenock West of Scotland F. C. and Is the proud holder of a Glasgow Glas-gow Juvenile Cup medal. Sharp trainers already are beating beat-ing the new rule requiring the Jockeys' names to be released with overnight entries at metropolitan tracks. They wait until the 3:30 deadline before giving a name. Then, Just as likely as not, they change the rider before race time the next day . . . There also is considerable con-siderable tiffing going on because the celebrated bookies who crashed the clubhouses this year are said to be opposed to giving the same prices that are quoted In the main ring . . . Buddy Hassett, newest of Dodger heroes, has found a way to beat the autograph hunters who lie In wait outside Ebbets field. He borrows a pair of glasses from a reporter so that he can escape in disguise each afternoon. Archie Walker, former lightweight contender, now works In the Curb Exchange Clearing bouse . . . Although Al-though it has been years since he won a bet, Jimmy Kelly, the celebrated cele-brated Sullivan Streeter, still manages man-ages to breakfast on scrambled eggs and champagne . . . ITambla Bauer, the lady trainer from the West, who was merely given a badge by the New York Jockey club, can ride her own horses better than most jockeys. Celebrated Gee Gees Wind Up in the Army Some of our most celebrated gee gees wind up In the army . . . Sir Barton and Behave Yourself (both Kentucky Derby winners), Vander Pool, Audacious, Chilhowee, Single Foot, Kentucky Cardinal and Capt Alcock are in the Remount service. Incidentally, there are 700 stallions In the American Remount assocla- Members of tne international sporting sport-ing club, which staged the affair, were taxed this tidy sum for the pretty privilege of a ringside seat Outsiders also were called upon for fancy prices but even though the big shots tossed In their C notes as If they were dealing In cigarette coupons, the show was not a great financial success. About all It did was to pave the way for the winner, Gorgeous Georges, to meet Dempsey. When they met a year later the face price of each ringside pasteboard paste-board was $30 but first row ducats were being peddled as high as S.luO. For hours during that eventful afternoon af-ternoon while millionaires and outright out-right phonies fought for prized locations, lo-cations, one seat remained vacant almost within touching distance of the ring. Next day Tex Rlcknrd, who had promoted the affair, and Mike Jacobs, Ja-cobs, who hand bankrolled It, were chatting concerning mathematics, finance fi-nance and the curious frenzies of the public. Tex absently stuck his band Into a side pocket nud pulled ut a piece of pasteboard. I "Gee whizz I" he said. I tion . . . William Graham, who stars for the Bay Ridge Hearts, Is the son of the soccer scribe of the same name. Turfmen hope for one good break out of the news that Governor Lehman Leh-man refuses to be re-elected. They hint that a new governor may mean a new state racing commission or that the commission may be scrapped as was done years ago when Harry F. Sinclair was chairman. THINGS I NEVER EXPECT. TO SEE: A New York State racing commissioner com-missioner remembering (and proving) prov-ing) that he really is as much a servant of the muggs who exi6t In , walkups as of the millionaires who reside In Westchester. A Broadway columnist getting an Item of sports news first. The New York State Athletic com-mission com-mission keeping within proper legal bounds and thus giving the public a break. J Any commission appointed to supervise su-pervise sports acting as if the wishes of the people really came ahead of the politicians. |